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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Hypertable vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.gbase.cn

www.geomesa.org

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CCRi and others

Hypertable Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2023

2004

2014

2009

1984

Current release

1.0, March 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.0.0, May 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users and groups

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